Inspirations

Only that which does not teach, which does not cry out, which does not condescend, which does not explain, is irresistible. - William Butler Yeats
With the above quotation Gregory Collins ended his lecture this morning on the monastic contribution to contemporary spirituality and Christianity.
Then this afternoon there was a lecture by Netto R Thelle which started with a quote from R S Thomas
Pilgrimages

There is an island there is no going
to but in a small boat the way
the saints went.


...Am I too late?
Were they too late also, those
first pilgrims? He is such a fast
God, always before us and
leaving as we arrive.

... was the pilgrimage
I made to come to my own
self, to learn that in times
like these and for one like me
God will never be plain and
out there, but dark rather and
inexplicable, as though he were in
here?

He ended the lecture with this poem by Gunnar Ekelof "The ferry song"

Every person is a world, inhabited
by blind beings in obscure revolt
against the "I", the king who rules over them.
In every soul a thousand souls are captive,
in every world lie thousands of worlds hidden.


Words that are really worth meditating on.....